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NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 16

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\ OLYMPIC FINANCE IT will be pleasing to sports enthusiasts to know that .the report and balance-sheet of the trip to the Olympic Games is to be published •within a few days. Talking to Harry Amos this week "Truth" was informed that the auditors had practically completed their work. Once they are finished the report will be issued. SYBIL'S CHANCE MISS SYBIL SWINBURNE, the wellknown amateur athlete, is well m the running 1 for championship honors m the Dream of Fair Women Carnival for the Wellington Museum. As sports candidate, she is known as Atalanta. ;In case anybody should confuse thia name with the lost island Atlantis, it. may "be explained that Atalanta was -s>. young maiden m Greek mythology much sought after by claimants folr her hand. She laid down the condition that whoever could defeat her m a fopt race would win, but whoever failed would suffer death. One shrewd m<in named Hippomenes, • however, threw three golden apples as he ran wh ten tempted her from the track and enabled him to hit the tape first. / . Whether he was sorry for it afteir is not related. • ; SWOP THE BATON ' •THE Canterbury Centre has c|om- * menced its programme of rfelay racing, and for the first time sincej the beginning, of the war has this br'.tinch of the sport been placed on a thorough organized basis. \ Seven teams lined up, but under the system of match racing only six could compete. One of the outstanding; features was the improvement m; form shown by Norm. Suckling, ex-Durtedin-Ite, who ran third m the N.Z. quarter last season. Norm, will be a material factor/ in the Canterbury Club's team. » •HELP THE SMALLS: THE New Zealand Swimming O'ouncil, * while to be commended ifor its initiative m accepting the offejr of -a tour, by Johnny Weismuller, holder of 29 American arid five worldly records, would be doing the sport a reall service if .it endeavored to arrange for appearances of the speedy Amerlcari m the smaller .centres. . I Swimming has made wondevful progress m Whangarei, Wangan.ui, • Masterton, Timaru and Nelson, find providing that the. guarantees; .■ are 'not made too substantial — something m keeping with what the provincial clubs can draw by way •p£ gate .receipts— Weismuller's visit will undoubtedly give the. sport a : finip throughout the Dominion. • v REVIVED ■"■;■ "THERE fs every prospect <jf the Lyt- •* teltun regatta./ m past,- years one of the most successful of its kind m the country, being revived. While it is .recognized that it would be impossible to stage' a , regatta on the same scale as was done iii the past, there is nothing to sltop jthe Lytteltori peo])le from prompting, as a trial; a modified "programn *c. Whatever the list of evbnts decided upon, Lyttelton would be sure of support from city oarsmen.. , AFTER CHAMPIONSHIP IT is. understood that ttog Stiles Bros., * of the Avon Rowing Club, will not only defend the, pairs ' 'championship which they won. last s&:ison, but will also row m the champion fours. They have been given : a free hand to pick two other members to row with them. ... ■ <■ ;• liiiiimiiinHiiiiiiuniiiiiMniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiii